Cumberland County, New South Wales


Cumberland County is a county in the State of New South Wales, Australia. Most of the Sydney metropolitan area is located within the County of Cumberland.
The County of Cumberland stretches from Broken Bay to the north, the Hawkesbury River to the north-west, the Nepean River to the west, the Cataract River to the south-west and the northern suburbs of Wollongong to the south. It includes the area of the Cumberland Plain.

History

The name Cumberland was conferred by Governor Phillip in honour of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, later King of Hanover, at a gathering to celebrate the birthday of his father, King George III, on 4 June 1788. The county has been marked on maps since the start of the colony, as shown along the key on a describing Port Jackson as being within the county of Cumberland. In the nineteenth century, parts of the county were in the South and North Riding electoral districts from 1856 to 1859, which were replaced by Central Cumberland. There was also the Cumberland Boroughs electoral district.

Cumberland County Council

The State of New South Wales is divided up into 141 counties, for the purposes of surveying and the registration of land titles. Few Australian counties have ever had any government or administrative function. However, the County of Cumberland did have a county government, the Cumberland County Council, from 1945 to 1964. Its responsibilities were primarily limited to town planning on the metropolitan scale. The Cumberland County Council was not elected by the people, but rather was elected by councillors of the various local governments within the county. The council consisted of 10 councillors each elected to a single constituency: No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, No. 7, No. 8, No. 9 and No. 10.
In 1948 the Council published the County of Cumberland planning scheme, a framework for accommodating expected postwar growth in the Sydney Basin. The objectives of the County Council were often in conflict with the aims of many State Government departments. For instance, the County Council's plans called for a green belt to encircle metropolitan Sydney, while the NSW Housing Commission wished to use much of this land to build new low-density public housing estates in areas such as Blacktown and Liverpool. As a result, the Cumberland County Council was dissolved in 1964.
Its metropolitan planning functions were taken over by a new body, the State Planning Authority, which has since been superseded by a succession of state government planning departments., the planning department is the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.

Chairmen

Hundreds

There were thirteen hundreds in Cumberland County, which were published in a government gazette on 27 May 1835, but repealed on 21 January 1888. Unlike South Australia, the hundreds were never adopted anywhere else in New South Wales. The hundreds:
In 1835, Cumberland County was subdivided into 57 parishes. Previously, the subdivisions of the area since the beginning of the colony were called districts. Many of the parishes founded in 1835 kept the name of the district. Others were named after Anglican churches in the same area. This included three of the four small parishes in the Sydney city area; St Philip, St James, St Andrew. However St Lawrence parish gave its name to the church, rather than the other way around. Further out of the city, the parishes of St John, St Luke, St Peter and St Matthew, in the Parramatta, Liverpool, Campbelltown and Windsor areas respectively, have Anglican churches which bear the same saints names; in Parramatta ; in Liverpool ; in Campbelltown ; and in Windsor
A full list of parishes found within this county; the LGA which the parish is mostly in, and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows:
ParishLGAHundred Coordinates
AlexandriaMunicipality of WoollahraSydney
AppinWollondilly ShireCampbelltown
BankstownCity of Canterbury-BankstownLiverpool
BerowraHornsby ShireDundas
BotanyBayside CouncilSydney
BringellyCity of PenrithBringelly
Broken BayNorthern Beaches CouncilPackenham
BulgoCity of WollongongHeathcote
CabramattaCity of LiverpoolBringelly
Castle HillThe Hills ShireParramatta
CastlereaghCity of PenrithRichmond
ClaremontCity of PenrithEvan
ConcordCity of Canada BaySydney
CookCamden CouncilBringelly
CorneliaThe Hills ShireHardinge
CowanHornsby ShireDundas
EckersleyCity of CampbelltownSouthend
Field of MarsCity of ParramattaParramatta
FrederickHornsby ShireHardinge
GidleyCity of BlacktownWindsor
GordonKu-ring-gai CouncilPackenham
Ham CommonCity of HawkesburyRichmond
HeathcoteSutherland ShireHeathcote
HolsworthyCity of LiverpoolLiverpool
Hunters HillCity of RydeParramatta
Liberty PlainsStrathfield MunicipalityParramatta
LondonderryCity of PenrithRichmond
Manly CoveNorthern Beaches CouncilPackenham
MarootaThe Hills ShireHardinge
MarramarraHornsby ShireDundas
MelvilleCity of FairfieldEvan
MenangleCity of CampbelltownCampbelltown
MintoCity of CampbelltownLiverpool
MulgoaCity of PenrithEvan
NarellanCamden CouncilCampbelltown
NarrabeenNorthern Beaches CouncilPackenham
NelsonThe Hills ShireWindsor
North ColahHornsby ShireDundas
PetershamInner West CouncilSydney
Pitt TownCity of HawkesburyWindsor
ProspectCity of BlacktownParramatta
Rooty HillCity of PenrithRichmond
South ColahHornsby ShireDundas
SouthendCity of WollongongSouthend
St AndrewCity of SydneySydney
St GeorgeGeorges River CouncilSydney
St JamesCity of SydneySydney
St JohnCity of ParramattaParramatta
St LawrenceCity of SydneySydney
St LukeCity of FairfieldLiverpool
St MatthewCity of HawkesburyWindsor
St PeterCity of CampbelltownCampbelltown
St PhilipCity of SydneySydney
SutherlandSutherland ShireHeathcote
WattamollaSutherland ShireHeathcote
WedderburnWollondilly ShireSouthend
WilloughbyCity of WilloughbyPackenham

Districts

The first subdivisions of the county were called districts, shown in early maps from the period, such as 21 districts on an and 37 districts on an . The districts in use in 1824: